Features
Q&A with journalist and author Alanna Mitchell
Award winning Canadian journalist Alanna Mitchell spent three years on the high seas with scientists to write her book about the crisis happening to our oceans. Off The Leash caught...
Words & Ideas
This year's words and ideas component of Darwin Festival includes an interesting mix of local storytelling, history and science. A favourite on the festival program, Darwin’s live storytelling night SPUN...
National Science Week
A world without midges or a world without chocolate – which would you choose? Yes, of course this is a trick question! Midges are pollinators and essential to fertilising South...
SALON17
Australians do love a cheeky renegade – so when the idea for an exhibition of works rejected from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards (NATSIAA) was born, it...
Coffee Cups: Choose to Reuse
Take a look at all the cafes springing up in Darwin and think about this – in 20 years, pretty much every single one of their paper take away cups...
Darwin Festival
18 days and nights of Festival fun is coming your way. This month’s Darwin Festival sees a hot line-up of cabaret, comedy and music, plus some of Australia’s best theatre...
Tropical Kitchen
Jamie Lewis leads guided tours of Darwin's Parap and Rapid Creek markets as part of Darwin Festival this month, followed by a cooking class and plenty of good conversation over...
Rapid Creek Market: spaghetti squash
Spaghetti squash appears at Rapid Creek Market throughout the Wet and Dry, but has periods of absence. It has a fairly long growing period and when it does re-appear at...
Review – Fringe Art and Vikings
Darwin – what happened? When I agreed to bring my hills-hoist and grindhouse cabaret up to the Darwin Fringe, little did I know I was going to experience one of...
Bamboo Moon (The Tale of Princess Kaguya)
Staged at twilight in the leafy Botanic Gardens, Bamboo Moon is based on the ancient Japanese story The Tale of Princess Kaguya and stars a youthful cast from Darwin’s Corrugated...
Garment Workshops
In just four lessons, Dixi Bankier can teach someone how to sketch a fashion design, cut it out, sew it and be model-ready for the runway – all from scratch...
Q&A with Kuah Jenhan
Comedian Kuah Jenhan's show Like This Like Dad was inspired by his very traditional Chinese father. Off The Leash caught up with the sought-after Malaysian comedian ahead of his Darwin...
Krista Walker – Makeup Artist
Krista Walker's Instagram feed features so much of her elaborate artwork, it's hard to believe the 17-year-old finds the time to produce it, especially as she has to wash it...
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation Film Gala
Years after he died, Albert Namitjira's copyright was sold by the Northern Territory public trustee for just $8,500, and is now privately owned by a Sydney family. The story of...
Tracks Dance: Man Made
Tracks’ last Darwin Festival show, Landed, followed three characters returning home to Darwin after a life away from it. Emotions, belonging and connection to place are a crucial theme of...
Cambodia's Golden Era of Rock n Roll
Cambodia's 'golden era' of rock n roll lasted for little more than a decade before it was tragically snuffed out by war and the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, but its...
Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday
Two celebrations at the "bookends of life" lead proceedings in Hello, Goodbye and Happy Birthday – birthday parties for an 80-year-old and an 18-year-old. But while the theatre audience is...
Growing Up Troppo – August
Festival frenzy is well underway in the Top End and nothing signals the great vibe of Darwin more than the Darwin Festival – and it’s not just the grown-ups who...
Mahbilil Festival
Jabiru’s annual Mahbilil Festival comes during Gurrung season in Kakadu, when the climate is still hot and dry and flocks of magpie geese are out, but the thunderclouds are building...
Comics' Corner – Darwin Festival Funnies
By Will Crawford. If you like your stand up smart, angry and full of dubious advice to the world's gentrifiers, then the sharp, biting satire of visiting New York comic...
